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TELEVISION SERIES
Creator: BENJAMIN JOHNSON
GENRE: Comedy-Drama
LOGLINE: An undergraduate film student, a graduate film student, and an aging film professor battle existential crises, personal emergencies, turbulence, trials, tribulations, life-or-death circumstances, and numerous adversity while working on their film projects with the goal to change and save the world through the power of art and cinema at UT-Austin film school during the years August 2014-May 2018.
MUSIC: LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, MGMT, Midlake, Fleet Foxes, The New Pornographers, Radiohead, Of Montreal, Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, White Denim, Polaris, Semi-Gloss, Echo and the Bunnymen, Talking Heads, The Magnetic Fields, Daniel Johnston, Cults, Father John Misty, Half Japanese, New Wave music from the 1980s, indie music from the 1990s, indie music from the 2000s, indie music from the 2010s, indie music from the 2020s.
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dante Ferretti, in collaboration with David Wasco and Leslie Tomkins
COSTUME DESIGN: Edith Head, in collaboration with Milena Canonero and Sandy Powell
CINEMATOGRAPHY INSPIRATIONS: Harris Savides, Robert Elswit
SCREENPLAY INSPIRATIONS: John Hughes, Alexander Payne, Noah Baumbach, Woody Allen, James L Brooks
DIRECTOR INSPIRATIONS: Federico Fellini, Agnes Varda, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jacques Tati, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, John Hughes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, Noah Baumbach, Woody Allen, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Milos Forman, Jonathan Demme, James L Brooks, Spike Jonze, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Luis Bunuel, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Bob Fosse, Gus Van Sant, Wes Anderson, Bernardo Bertolucci,
It?s a television series (I don?t know yet how many seasons there will be), and I must write and direct every episode.
The three main protagonists:
The Professor: Male. A 65 year old film director who never actually branched out and became mainstream but was subjected to bad luck and unfortunate circumstances that kept him in Texas throughout the majority of his life. He is also like a combination of Ignatius J Reilly from John Kennedy Toole?s A Confederacy of Dunces, Henry Chinaski from Charles Bukowski?s novels, Grady Tripp from Michael Chabon?s Wonder Boys, Kurt Vonnegut (the real life Kurt Vonnegut), Zach Galifinakis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Graduate Student: Female. 31 years old. Recently married. Everything is a crisis and a life or death situation. This character reminds me of a Robert Crumb character combined with some women I knew in real life such as Carolynn Calabrese (mostly her; yep, definitely her), with some elements of Alessandra Lichtenfeld and Artemis (I don?t know her last name; something Greek). She?s also like a female version of Barry Egan from Paul Thomas Anderson?s Punch Drunk Love.
The Undergraduate Student: Male. 18 years old. Has Asperger?s syndrome. Obsession with cinema. Encyclopedic knowledge of world cinema. Always scared of everything, especially the present and future. A combination of Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, Daniel Johnston, and others.
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